Combination tack hammer and puller.



N. LUND.

COMBINATION TACK HAMMER AND FULLER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1, 1909.

919,370, Patentd Apr. 27, 1909.

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NELS LUND, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

COMBINATION TACK HAMMER AND FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Application filed February 1, 1908. Serial No. 413,830.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELs LUND, a citizen of the United States, residingat Minneapo lis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Tack Hammersand Pullers; and I do hereby de clare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its especial object to provide an improvedcombination tack hammer and puller, and to this end it consists of thenovel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described anddefined in the'claim.

The improved device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, whereinlike characters indicate like parts throughout the sev- Referring to thedrawings, Figure l a View in side elevation, showing the improved hammerand puller and illustrating the action thereof in pulling a tack. Fig. 2is a bottom plan view of' the tool, with some parts broken away; andFig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line .1 r of Fig. 2, andshowing also in section a portion of a board or like body from which atack is being drawn.

The numeral 1 indicates a board or like body, and the numeral 2 anordinary tack.

The improved tool is made up of two mem bers 3 and 4 that act as leversand are intermediately connected by a pivot joint 5 of the g usual orany suitable construction. The lever 3 is provided at one end with ahammer head 6, the inner and smaller end of which is terminated in asmall V-shaped claw 7 and with a driving abutment 8. The lever 4 isprovided with a transversely extended head 9, the small inner end ofwhich is tapered to a quite sharp edge and is formed with a V- shapedclaw 10. By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the slightly curvedface of the head 9 extends nearly parallel to the handle members 3 and4., so that it may be used as a pounding surface to drive tacks ornails. A leaf spring 11 which, as shown, is secured to the lever 4,bears against the lever 3 and exerts a force tending to separate the ihandle ends of the levers 3 and 4 apart and g to force apart thecooperating V-shaped tack-en aging claws 7 and 10.

The c aws 7 and 10 are adapted to engage and hold the tack when the headof the latter presses against the driving abutment 8 of the lever 3. Inthis way a tack may be firmly held so that it may be driven into a flooror other wooden or similar material. This manner of holding the tackalso makes it an easy matter to partly drive the tack into a board orother similar article which is located overhead and above a point thatmay be reached by the hands of a person using the tool. After the tackhas been partly driven a single blow, delivered while the tack is heldas above described, the tool will be removed .from the tack and thedriving of the tack may be completed by striking the head thereof eitherwith the flat rounded outer portion of the head 9 or with the blunt endof the head 6. By means of the cooperating claws 7 and 10 a tack, whendriven flush with the surface of a board, may be easily engaged andwithdrawn.

The tool above described is capable of a great many different uses, butwas especially designed and is particularly adapted for use by carinspectors and yard clerks for the purpose of applying cards and tags tobox cars and removing the same therefrom. The tool is of small cost, isstrong and durable and, in actual practice, has been found efficient forthe purposes had in view.

"hat I claim is:

A combined tack hammer and puller, comprising a pair of pivotallyconnected levers, the said levers having driving heads extendingtransversely of each other, one of said heads having a V-shaped claw,and the other having an angular notch, between which claw and notch. thehead of a tack may be clamped, the said V-shaped claw being adapted tostraddle the stem of said tack and the said angular notch being adaptedto overlap the end of the V-shaped claw to hold said tack againstendwise removal, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NELS LUND. l Vitnesses:

H. D. KILGORE, MALIE HOEL.

